Years ago, there was a study of a working-class community where there were black, Hispanic and Italian kids, and where many of the cops were Italian.
When a black or Hispanic kid broke the law, the police took him down to the station and booked him. But if an Italian kid did the same thing, they reacted differently.
The Italian cop would take the Italian kid out into an alley and rough him up. Then he would take him home to his family, tell them what had happened and leave him there — where the kid could expect another beating, instead of the wrist-slap punishment of the law. * Reminds me when a kid was caught by the neighbors in Vietnam stealing something from my bike. They took him down to the police station and presented him to the cop at the desk. The cop asked if the boy had done it and when the boy replied yes, he was taken out back and evidently beat badly. He was then thrown into jail for the night with no food or water and sent home the next day without his bicycle which the boy said was a fate worst than death.
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Under the Obama administration, both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice have been leaning on public schools around the country to reduce what they call the “disproportionate” numbers of black male students who are punished for various offenses in schools.
Under an implicit threat of losing their federal subsidies, the Minneapolis Public Schools have agreed to reduce the disparity in punishment of black students by 25 percent by the end of this school year, and then by 50 percent, 75 percent and finally 100 percent in each of the following years.
In other words, there are now racial quota limits for punishment in the Minneapolis schools.
If we stop and think — as old-fashioned as that may seem — there is not the slightest reason to expect black males to commit the same number of offenses as Asian females or any other set of students.
More @ New York Post
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